Christopher Hitchens view on Michelle Obama's thesis - 'not written in any known language'

In Michelle Obama’s commencement speech at Tuskegee — which is designated as a historically black university — she encouraged graduates to challenge and rise above the racially-based slights, insults and indignities they may face.

“The road ahead is not going to be easy,” Obama said in her address. “It never is, especially for folks like you and me.
 Is this not the rage of entitlement?  Because 

while we’

ve come so far, the truth is those age-old problems are stubborn, and they haven’t fully gone away.”

She failed to mention that her Grades to get into Princeton University were not good enough, however she was the beneficiary of 'affirmative action' (in the US those deemed a minority are given extra help).

Obama is keen to browbeat those who would "even insinuate" that affirmative action rewards the undeserving, results in inappropriate job placements, or stigmatizes its presumed beneficiaries.

In the case of Michelle Obama, affirmative action did all three.  The partners at Sidley Austin learned this the hard way.  In 1988, they hired her out of Harvard Law under the impression that the degree meant something.  It did not.  By 1991, Michelle was working in the public sector as an assistant to the mayor.  By 1993, she had given up her law license.

Had the partners investigated Michelle's background, they would have foreseen the disaster to come.  Sympathetic biographer Liza Mundy writes, "Michelle frequently deplores the modern reliance on test scores, describing herself as a person who did not test well."

She did not write well, either.  Mundy charitably describes her senior thesis at Princeton as "dense and turgid."  

The less charitable Christopher Hitchens' observes:
"To describe (Michell Obama's thesis) as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be 'read' at all, in the strict sense of the verb; this is because it wasn't written in any known language." 

Michelle had to have been as anxious at Harvard Law as Bart Simpson was at Genius School.  Almost assuredly, the gap between her writing and that of her highly talented colleagues marked her as an affirmative action admission, and the profs finessed her through.

But Let us imagine you are an adviser to Michelle Obama

You advis hereagainst doing the Karoake spot with James Corden and you enquire why would you want t do it anyway?

Let us imagine her reasoning ‘it’s fun’ and it has an audience of millions

She doesn’t say.  

You in turn don’t say this is an ego trip, to do this schlock, glitz

gig, neither do you say ‘what about the dignity of office.’ Besides it is decidedly low brow.  You don't say that as it would deem you an elitist cultural snob

What do you mean, low brow?

I mean you are not discussing the irony  or conservative elements in a Brahms concerto, beside pop music today is the main pornographic,

 you don’t say, in fact you don't say  anything because you know you up against a cultural tsunami